10 things you didn’t know about Warren

Who is this Harvard professor running for the Senate seat? We know she’s heavily into law, and has claimed (to much controversy) being Native American, but what else? For us, it wasn’t until this picture of her telling Scott Brown “the only magazine that would have me: Consumer Reports,” poking fun at his revealing centerfold days, that we could tell she had a sense of humor. The following gallery comprises the 10 most interesting, fun facts about Elizabeth Warren.
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1. Liz Herring was a child prodigy.

Before she was Elizabeth Warren, she was known as Liz Herring. Liz skipped the sixth grade and went on to graduate high school at the age of 16.
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2. She thought she was a mistake.

Warren is the kid sister of three much older brothers. “One was huge and the other two were mean,” she recalls. “I was 30 before I realized, you know, that I probably was an accident.”
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3. Her first car was a white MG.

It was the third of the Herring family cars behind an air-conditioned bronze Oldsmobile and old off-white Studebaker. The beat-up MG was bought with a $200 loan. Warren regularly drove it across Route 66 in Oklahoma City to get a bite at the Charcoal Oven.
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4. James Garner opened her eyes.

As Warren recalls it, her first glimpse that there was a larger world beyond the wheat fields of Oklahoma came from an unlikely source—the actor James Garner. Then the star of the hit TV western “Maverick,’’ Garner had attended Warren’s elementary school. His return visit in the late 1950s was nothing short of a revelation. The biggest heartthrob on television was coming back. “I realized there were possibilities in this world,’’ she said. “You could get from here to there.’’
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5. She can debate.

Not only was Elizabeth Warren a high school debating champion, but she also got a full ride to George Washington University from the debate team.
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6. She used candy to potty train her daughter.

To get her daughter potty-trained for day care, Warren enlisted the help of M&Ms so she could attend law school.
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7. She was nine months pregnant when she graduated from law school.

That’s right, she was taking care of a 2-year-old and was about ready to give birth to her son when she graduated from Rutgers University with a Juris Doctor in 1976.
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8. She enjoys a ‘taste of the Rockies’

After a long day of laying down the law, Warren likes to crack open a frost-brewed Coors Light.
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9. She’s a Rockets fan.

And no pink hat either. She held her own when she was heckled at a game vs. the 76ers.
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